ShibataFenderTeam

• 60+ years of group experience in fender production
• over 9,300 references around the world
• 155,000 fenders in service
• 100 years of experience in the production of rubber products

Shibata Industrial, headquartered in Japan, is responsible for rubber production and R&D. ShibataFenderTeam, headquartered in Germany, handles design, manufacturing (steel, foam, PE) and international sales, with its about 80 employees around the world. Our regional offices facilitate the local contact with customers; located in the US, Malaysia, Spain and The Netherlands, they are supported by a large network of well-established local representatives on six continents.

The SFT Group offers consulting, engineering, manufacturing, after sales service and testing.

ShibataFenderTeam offers customized fender solutions and provides detailed and extensive design input and support to engineering companies, operators and other stakeholders at an early project stage.

Application engineering is provided by our in-house sales engineers. Our experienced and highly skilled colleagues all around the globe are value engineers, in a sense, creating solutions that are ideal for the client and on-site conditions.

Providing safety critical fender systems, SFT has a strong focus on manufacturing all major components in-house, ensuring the highest quality and reliability at its own production facilities in Europe and Asia.

ShibataFenderTeam is committed to providing support and assistance during commissioning and throughout the service life of the fender system. And all ShibataFenderTeam products are designed, manufactured and tested in accordance with PIANC guidelines.

Our wide product range and fender sizes reflect our expertise in rubber, steel, polyurethane, polyethylene:

Rubber Fenders, Foam Fenders, Pneumatics Fenders, Corner Fenders, Rolling Fenders, Extruded Fenders, Komposite Fenders, Tug Boat Fenders, PS-Sliding Plates and Fenders, other Special Solution and Bollards and Accessories and Fixings.

Holistic Approach to Fender Design.
Since 2017, ShibataFenderTeam has advocated the Holistic Approach to fender systems design. This approach, which considers the entire fender system—including project conditions, components and design as well as manufacturing— in the fender selection process, has now been officially endorsed by the PIANC Fender Guidelines 2024.

Sustainability.
Focused on three strategic priorities —carbon reduction initiatives, corporate responsibility, and people—in 2023, we became the first in the industry to be in a position to provide product-specific CO2 emissions figures for each engineered fender system upon request with our Carbon Footprint Assessment. Complete control of the supply chain, enabled by our fully owned compounding and mixing facility in Malaysia, allows us to prioritize quantified sustainability and provide credible statements about CO2 emissions.

Decades of experience have gained ShibataFenderTeam a reputation as a dependable partner in the international port, harbor, and waterways market.